The United States while inexperienced has more weapons than ever before. Michael Bradley is a world-class player who will control the center of the pitch. Dempsey is still a dangerous goal scorer and while Altidore had a rough year with Sunderland he still scored tons of goals for the US in the past 2 years and is a freak of an athlete.
Combine those three with Zusi, Fabian Johnson, Jermaine Jones we have a very powerful attack that should score plenty of goals. Having Julien Green on your bench will be a blessing. Speed kills and this US has more speed than any other US team before.
The defense is young and truthfully not very good but the outside backs have speed to jump into the offense and have the ability to catch their opponent if they get burned.
Lastly, goalies play huge roles in soccer games and Tim Howard is a world-class goalie and will be the best goalie in the group.
Ghana has defeated us the past 2 world cups but their 2014 squad is much worse than 2010 and 2006. US is the far better team and should win this game by a goal or two.
Portugal has Ronaldo who has the ability to take over any game. Yeldin is part of the 23-man squad just to follow Ronaldo the whole game because he has the speed to keep up with him. Control Ronaldo and Portugal is beatable, they always underachieve in the world cup.
Lastly, Germany. Playing the Germans in the final game could be a blessing if they already have 6 points and are guaranteed a spot in the knockout stage.
Cant wait for June 12th for the greatest sporting event in the world to start. Go USA.
I see MAAR redshirting, obviously if he is more impressive than Dawkins then switch them around. I see more athletic ability out of Dawkins to keep up in the Big Ten.
Bielfedt will obviously see around 15 minutes to start the year but I think people are highly underrating Chatman and Wilson. I think Beilein will want Chatman and Wilson to play significant minutes.
Wilson could be cut to 10 minutes and Bielfedt will then play 10 minutes at the PF.
Athletic 6'8" power forwards will be needed to grab rebounds when we have Donnal down low.
Donnal could be cut down to 25 minutes to allow another 5 minutes to Bielfedt. Bielfedt just didnt impress me at all, unless he improves his three point shooting in games, Id rather role with the young guys.
I'm currently a sophomore at U of M. 6 of us went to the game and got $40 tickets a piece for upper level student section tickets. There was always the occasional asshole chants directed at us and constant excessive cheering when MSU went on their run in the first half to take the lead. Everyone had the same excuse that we are an average team that would lose by 15+ if they were healthy. At the end of the game we were the only ones trash talking.
After attending the football game and the Michigan at Indiana game last year it feels good to finally be on the winning side on the road.
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Detroit just beat Ohio State 9-8 so it should be a great game next weekend.
Being in the student section for the football game was rough but I got my revenge in the student section for the basketball game.
SG: Manny Fresh
PG Burke (5)
SG: Manny Fresh (3)
SF: Kam Chatman (2)
PF: Deshawn Sims (4)
C: Ricky Doyle (1)
The United States while inexperienced has more weapons than ever before. Michael Bradley is a world-class player who will control the center of the pitch. Dempsey is still a dangerous goal scorer and while Altidore had a rough year with Sunderland he still scored tons of goals for the US in the past 2 years and is a freak of an athlete.
Combine those three with Zusi, Fabian Johnson, Jermaine Jones we have a very powerful attack that should score plenty of goals. Having Julien Green on your bench will be a blessing. Speed kills and this US has more speed than any other US team before.
The defense is young and truthfully not very good but the outside backs have speed to jump into the offense and have the ability to catch their opponent if they get burned.
Lastly, goalies play huge roles in soccer games and Tim Howard is a world-class goalie and will be the best goalie in the group.
Ghana has defeated us the past 2 world cups but their 2014 squad is much worse than 2010 and 2006. US is the far better team and should win this game by a goal or two.
Portugal has Ronaldo who has the ability to take over any game. Yeldin is part of the 23-man squad just to follow Ronaldo the whole game because he has the speed to keep up with him. Control Ronaldo and Portugal is beatable, they always underachieve in the world cup.
Lastly, Germany. Playing the Germans in the final game could be a blessing if they already have 6 points and are guaranteed a spot in the knockout stage.
Cant wait for June 12th for the greatest sporting event in the world to start. Go USA.
I see MAAR redshirting, obviously if he is more impressive than Dawkins then switch them around. I see more athletic ability out of Dawkins to keep up in the Big Ten.
Bielfedt will obviously see around 15 minutes to start the year but I think people are highly underrating Chatman and Wilson. I think Beilein will want Chatman and Wilson to play significant minutes.
Wilson could be cut to 10 minutes and Bielfedt will then play 10 minutes at the PF.
Athletic 6'8" power forwards will be needed to grab rebounds when we have Donnal down low.
Donnal could be cut down to 25 minutes to allow another 5 minutes to Bielfedt. Bielfedt just didnt impress me at all, unless he improves his three point shooting in games, Id rather role with the young guys.
Walton 30
Spike
PG
Walton 30
Spike 10
SG
Caris 35
Spike 5
SF
Irvin 30
Chatman 5
Dawkins 5
PF
Chatman 20
Wilson 20
C
Donnal 30
Doyle 10
Where do I find student tickets which I believe are $50 for the whole weekend?
Duke will win by double digits but MSU will win pretty handly also. Izzo will make sure the spartans don't overlook this game.